tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post6404305920680138364..comments2015-03-31T03:36:05.449-06:00Comments on The Ancestry Insider: We Want Tech: OCR HandwritingThe Ancestry Insiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-90007839844947251002011-04-18T06:47:22.056-06:002011-04-18T06:47:22.056-06:00This post reminds me of a long time ago when in sc...This post reminds me of a long time ago when in school we used to have a subject <a href="http://www.handwritingexperttennessee.com" rel="nofollow"> Handwriting expert </a>(with proper lectures - although I don’t remember about the exams: P) called &quot;handwriting improvement&quot;. It sounds quite a funny but helpful course now :)<br /> <a href="http://www.handwritingexperttennessee.com" rel="nofollow"> Handwriting analysis </a>emma jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08278676878800527271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-45432311091905463812011-01-19T11:14:03.328-07:002011-01-19T11:14:03.328-07:00Back in the 1990s I scanned a bibliography with so...Back in the 1990s I scanned a bibliography with some handwritten notes on it. I used whatever the best of breed OCR program was at the time - can&#39;t remember the name of it. I was surprised to see that my handwritten notes were correctly read by the software.Barbarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11687940102998242654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-20519462619543067262011-01-19T07:00:41.313-07:002011-01-19T07:00:41.313-07:00This would be one of the holy grails for digitizat...This would be one of the holy grails for digitization, research, and search. I&#39;ve also not found any usable tools yet - but this post is a good collection of efforts in this area.<br /><br />One suggestion is that the OCR doesn&#39;t need to be 100% perfect (even typed documents don&#39;t get OCRd perfectly). Getting any significant recognition of old handwriting would be valuable (10% or more).alchemistahttp://alchemista.pip.verisignlabs.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-79615543161341148492011-01-19T03:49:55.866-07:002011-01-19T03:49:55.866-07:00At the National Archives in the Netherlands, we&#3...At the National Archives in the Netherlands, we&#39;re participating in an academic study to do OCR on handwritten archival documents. See the <a href="http://www.ai.rug.nl/alice/nwo-catch-scratch/index_english.html" rel="nofollow">Scratch project page</a> for more information.Yvette Hoitinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10807310204372870735noreply@blogger.com